11. Objects and Portable Data: XML
Object-oriented technologies have made major inroads in recent years. Objects have become a major technology in the application development industry. Objects have also made major headway in the definition and movement of data as well. Much excitement has been generated over the past several years regarding the portability of code. Much of Java’s success was due to the fact that it was highly portable across multiple platforms. The bytecodes produced by Java could be executed on various platforms, as long as the system had a Java virtual machine loaded. The .NET framework provides another, very important, type of portability—portability across various languages. The assemblies produced by C# .NET can be used ...
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